Betts led the best and fairest count early, reflecting his incredible start to the season; he booted 26 goals in Adelaide's opening seven matches.

But Dangerfield took the lead after round 10 and was never headed.

Such was the midfielder's consistency in 2015 that he never polled the maximum 25 votes in a game.

Only three players achieved the feat: Taylor Walker polled 25 in round one for his six-goal, 22-possession game against North Melbourne, while Betts also polled maximum votes against St Kilda in round seven (six goals) and again in the elimination final against the Western Bulldogs (five goals). Brodie Smith also polled maximum votes in round two.

Betts was the club's highest goal kicker for a second straight season with 63 majors, while Matt Crouch won the Mark Bickley Emerging Talent Award for the best player under 21.

Adelaide also announced it had renamed its best team man award in Phil Walsh's honour, which was won by retiring key forward James Podsiadly.

Rory Sloane was awarded the Chelsea Phillis Coaches Award, Jake Lever won the Brian Sando OAM Award for professionalism and Ian Callinan made it back-to-back SANFL best and fairest awards.

Skipper Walker made special mention of the club's player development manager Emma Barr, who has played an invaluable role in helping the playing group through the tragedy of losing their head coach in July.